CoolBar

     For most home pages, specially those with 
     huge size of page hierarchy, a big problem
     is that most of your visitors do not have
     patient to browse every page in your site.
     They just pick whatever looked interesting
     - one or two pages. Or they may be attracted
     by an interested link to other sites in your 
     pages and never return to your sites to see 
     the rest pages on your sites.

     How can you expose your site AMAP?

Solution:
     To solve this problem, you need an easy way
     to show the hierarchy of your site at the 
     first place.  CooBar is a great way to
     do this.

CooBar is a button table with pop-up menu 
bars and tooltips(it is running at bottom of
this widnow). Its pop-up menu can support, 
theoretically, unlimited layers of sub menus. Each 
button in sub menus has its own tootips, sound effect,
button images.  It is highly costumizable.
This applet may contain hundreds of buttons.
How can I design and maintain this huge button system?
Don't worry: CooBar comes with a cool wizard,





CooBar Wizard provides a visual design environment 
where you can design, and maintain your button 
system on a button tree.


















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Price info of shareware version is available.





Parameters:

  Note: It is not recommended that you edit these 
        parameters manually.
        Please use CooBar Wizard to generate the
        HTML to call CooBar.

  
     fgcolor  - Text color of buttons
     bgcolor  - Backgraound color of buttons if there is 
                    no background images are specified.
     bardir   - Arragement of the button table.
                0 - buttons will be arrange in rows: horizontally
                1 - buttons will be arrange in columns: vertically
     barnum   - Number of buttons in a row/column.
     baralign - The way to align the last row/column 
                if the row/column is not fully filled with button.
     background - URL of background image.  
                  This image will be used to
                  cover the area not covered by buttons.
     waitMax    - The period to wait before CooBar close 
                  pop-up sub menu automatically.
     stopMax    - The period to wait before CooBar stop the 
                  delay effect. CooBar will delay detecting mouse             
                  position for a period specified be stopMax so 
                  that users can move their mouse cursor over 
                  other buttons in order to reach the pop-up menu.
                  This feature will reduce the sensitive of popping 
                  up but let users to reach a pop-up menu easily.

     moveDelay    - Similar to stopMax. moveDelay determent how 
                  many mouse movement to delay before detecting 
                  mouse position.
                  This feature will reduce the sensitive of 
                  popping up but let users to reach a pop-up 
                  menu easily.

     tipY         - initial Y coordinate of tooltips.

     menuY         - initial Y coordinate of Pop-up sub menu.

     button_1 
          ...
     button_x_y... - Parameter array with names started with
                   "button" define the hierarchy of button 
                   system in following way:


               Levels are delimited by "_".  For example,

                   button_1 has three children:

                   button_1_1, button_1_2, button_1_3

               while button_1_3 has its own children
 
                button_1_3_1, button_1_3_2, button_1_3_3, 
                button_1_3_4, ...


           Values of button parameters are organized in 
           following way:
 
    Fields in each value of button parameter are 
    delimited with "|" and arranged in following order

            
       Label0      - button label text displayed when 
                     no focus
       Label1      - button label text displayed 
                     when button has focus
       Label2      - button label text displayed 
                     when button is clicked
       URL         - url to open when clicking
       image0      - url of button image when no focus
       image1      - url of button image when button 
                     has focus
       image2      - url of button image when button 
                      is clicked
       au0         - url of sound file when button has focus
       au1         - url of sound file when button is clicked
       hint        - content of tooltips
       width       - width of button
       height      - height of button
       auMode      - audio mode: 
                     0 - play once
                     1 - play repeatly (loop)
       subOpenMode - sub menu open mode
                     0 - open when mouse cursor move over
                     1 - open when clicking
      urlOpenMode - target of url.  It is the same 
                    as the target supported in HTML and can be

                           _blank, _parent, _self, _top, 
                           user-defined frame name, ...
      barAlign    - way to align button text
      bevelW0     - vertical bevel of button when no focus
      bevelH0     - herizontal bevel of button when no focus
      bevelW1     - vertical bevel of button when button has focus
      bevelH1     - herizontal bevel of button when button has focus

      fontSize    - font size of button text.  Default is 20.
      fontv       - vertical adjustment of button text. Defualt is 20.
                       


                                                   
Detail Instructions for installation:
 
                                            
   1).  

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   2). Unzip coobar.zip in a temperary directory, 
         say c:\tmp_bar, in your local machine


   3). Run SETUP.EXE unzipped from the package 
       to rename class files. 
       (because PKUNZIP will extract the class file, 
       coobar.class, to coobar.cla). If you 
       prefer to rename them manuly, 
       you have to RENAME *.cla to *.class.
       
	   NOTE: They are case sensitive: all in lower case.
       
       At this time, you should have following files in c:\tmp_ad

          cbwizard.class
          cbwmsg.class
          cbwnode.class
          cbwopt.class
          cbwview.class
          cbwopt.class
          common.class
          cooabout.class
          coobar.class
          coobut.class
          cooDraw.class
          coohint.class
          coosound.class
          coosub.class

          
          bbb.gif          
          greypa.gif          
          red.gif          
          stone.gif 
         
          menu1.au          
          sound2.au
          README.TXT
          test_bar.htm

   4). Open test_bar.htm with your browser locally. 
        If it works locally, go to next step.  
        Otherwise, go to step B) below.

   5). Try test_bar.htm online. 
         - place all the files  in your HTML directory, 
           say public_html, in your server. 

           IMPORTANT: class files have to be uploaded with BINARY mode.

           Make sure that you make all the files readable
           You may want to use following UNIX command to do it

             chmod 740 ~/public_html/*.*



         - Browse the test_bar.htm in your server 
           from your local machine remotely.
      If it works, go to next step.  Otherwise, 
      go to step B) below.


      B). Contact Mark Qian. 

	  EMail the test URL to Mark Qian so that he can take 
          a close look.